pip is a different project from setuptools. Installing just python-setuptools will not install pip.

Both install packages from the Python Package Index, but pip uses setuptools to provide a nicer interface and a slightly different approach. In other words, to use pip you first need to install setuptools.

pip offers more features than setuptools, including uninstalling and 'editable' installations where a git, subversion or mercurial repository is cloned and installed as a development egg.

Note that the python-pip package is smaller than the python-setuptools package: